European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 26, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 17 How to be Aborn associated press just ask them. They will Tell you quit seriously. They Don t like dating. They Don like flirting and most of All they Don t like sex. That s the Way it is these Days for a blossoming number of healthy Young american College men and a few women too at California state University at Long Beach. Religious conviction the Young men say has nothing to do with the birth of an anti sex league that has titillated this Seaside student body. They re not Gay they stress nor Are they misogynist nor do they look like something resembling the elephant Man. And it s not because their Boyfriend or Girlfriend bid a bitter Farewell. No it s not that they claim. The group of some 30 members insist that the much touted physical Joys of sexual Union is All too prevailing All too overrated All too consuming and should be resisted if not to avoid aids herpes and unwanted pregnancies then to avoid emotional addiction and a clouded mind. Sex is a waste of time. It s a waste of Effort a waste of calories a waste of affection. People Are driven by it and it s just not Worth everything people think it s cracked up to be Cameron Wright a 24 year old senior explained. I be had lasting relationships Wright said smoothing his Bushy Brown hair. But now i think it s Good to deny yourself something like sex in order to gain in other  for Curt Leber the anti sex move is something Akin to swearing off red meat or Black Coffee. When it first started i thought it was a gag you know for Shock Appeal. But a lot of it makes sense gaining strength through celibacy changeling your energies someplace else like Reading a Book or something. When you think about it the handsome Wavy haired student said the act of sex is one of the stupidest things we  the asexual Saga began in the fall of 1985. That s when Jeff Mccann a 28-year-old journalism student who for kicks pins buttons of sister Theresa and Saint Rita to his Blue jeans jacket and has giant posters of the Virgin Mary tacked around his off Campus apartment had a lengthy Chat with Al Borie a 22-year-old guitar picking Junior whose White stringy hair dangles loosely Over his army fatigue shirt. We just started talking about relationships and How sex seems to complicate everything Borie recalled. Mccann easily the most militant anti sex proponent said i Don t really care for girls and i just hate sex. I think it s evil really. The anti sex league has one purpose we want to Stop people from having  Mccann said his last sexual encounter was nearly a year ago. Before that he said he had sex with a dozen or so women but never found it All that satisfying. When i was 15,1 had sex with this girl. She was about the same age Mccann said tapping his Black boots. I thought it was great. We were together for three or four years. I thought i was in love. Then one Day she thought she was pregnant and it turned out she want but it made me really think about the consequences. I mean bringing a child into this  when Mccann left the room near the student Union for a moment Borie smiled and conceded Don t Tell Jeff but i strayed about two months ago. But it does t count. I was  the whole idea about changeling energies in other places is Good said Yafa Suares a 20-year old Junior. Sex really in t that big a Deal she said. I think these Guys Are offering a Good kind of perspective on the whole  although the no sex group elected Only a splatter of humor when it was founded in october an uproar ensued when Mccann used the Power of the press to promote his sexual views. On nov. 18, Mccann then editor of the weekly Campus newspaper called the Long Beach Union wrote a spicy condemnation of sex titled How to be a born again  but it was the hand drawn cover of what Mccann called the anti sex manifesto graphically depicting virtually every sex act Ever imagined that gained the anti sex league its notorious reputation. Thousands of copies of the paper were allegedly removed from Campus Newsstands and the newspaper s business manager a student appointed by the associated students government resigned in protest calling the sketches tasteless and  nonetheless students gobbled up every copy they could find As collectors items. Soon after the controversial Issue appeared a 26 year old woman named Pam Rogalsky decided to come to one of the league s meeting. She told me she had a daughter and that if she did t have sex her Little girl would t be Here Mccann remembered. She was really  All of this delights Mccann and Borie who still Hope to get their organization recognized As a Bona fide student group thereby qualifying for student body funding. And they be got big plans too if they can get a Little financial assistance. As it is the anti sex league meets once a week for a sort of rap session about How to steer Clear of sexual entrapment Mccann said. But with student funding Mccann said Well then they could get speakers like Linda Lovelace who has spoken out about being forced to submit to some unsavoury things while filming deep Throat. And then they could show such anti sex movies As Agnes of god and eating Raouland install an anti sex hot line for potential backsliders Mccann said. Mccann is thinking about Bruce Springsteen s the River a number about a High school couple whose life is ruined by an unwanted pregnancy As the anti sex leagues official song. The slogan for the league is be my Virgin Mccann said and then he recited his own Pithy Dirge sex is evil sex is bad. Sex won t last it s just a  Mccann said hugging is acceptable holding hands is Fine too and kissing is All right if absolutely necessary. Masturbation is taboo though. The Ideal he insists is to achieve a perfectly platonic Friendship with a member of the opposite sex. You can do everything but just Don t have sex. You Don t need it Mccann said. Love has nothing to do with sex  True Freedom Borie said is when you reach a Point where you Don t even think about  Wright said his parents have not objected to his vows of abstinence. They know i m old enough to make my own decisions and they re not worried about me bringing Home a pregnant  for the vast majority of Long Beach students the whole notion of no sex is As ludicrous As eliminating Beer busts or taking the Var out of the student Union. Let s be serious this is a Southern California Campus said Shelly Thomas presumably making the Case that sex is or should be More prevalent in this area of the country. It s a joke the broadcast journalism major continued. No sex come  Deborah Carey hurrying from the parking lot to her biology class also had Little patience for the anti sex league. With her Golden hair flying wildly in the stiff Westerly Breeze the 19-year-old woman said Don t you think those people Are a Little too Young to be so cynical about sex it can be quite Beautiful Don t you think Mccann and Borie Don t think so at All. In fact the league is Only one of their vehicles in spreading the Bare facts about sex. They have also recently started up a local band satan s cheerleaders a five piece ensemble that plays Only instrumentals. The real message comes Between the songs. I m the drummer and i Tell people not to come to Rock clubs Mccann said. I Tell them they Only come to get drunk and then take someone Home and then they have to Wake up with that person. We just say go Home and read a Good book.1 " perhaps the Scarlet letter Erma Bombeck finally discovered Why i m so tired and irritable lately. My trash flow is at flood stage and it i stressing me out. I knew if i waited Long enough modern Day psychologists would put a name to my problem which is How to get rid of All the litter in my House before it starts to grow. Trash flow has a Nice ring to it. What it amounts to Are All the magazines newspapers file folders boxes wrappings clippings and excess junk that i am reluctant to pitch. Like garbage i will Bury no trash before its time. Most people do not understand the ritual that accompanies every bit of trash around the House. And that s where the stress comes in. Every item takes a decision. I must join it sign it pay it protest it answer it Burn it read it store it use it or toss it out. Some things have a longer shelf life than others. Take the five garbage bags filled with styrofoam squiggles commonly referred to As ghost  who in their right mind would throw them out As soon As they Are received packed around something breakable you never know when you re going to Send a Glass chandelier or a Ming vase to someone and need them to protect it. For some reason the subscription cards that fall out of magazines survive the trash Cut. No one seems to know Why but invariably when they fall out we carefully put them Back on the same Page so they can fall out again when we turn another Page. We save magazines for 15 years and they still have a card in it that says if you subscribe before Jan. 5, 1971, you can still have 15 issues at half  i am always saving the front pages of newspapers where an Earth shaking event is recorded. I know i cannot outlive its historical value but i always think it will be a great legacy for my children. This despite the fact that one of my kids wrapped their chewing gum in a Bicentennial commemorative edition right before my eyes the truth is the decisions Are coming too fast and it s getting harder and harder to Channel the items with any order. I am in Over my assimilation. The rotation system has gone to pot. I was Only supposed to save the coupons for dog food until a they expired or b i got a dog. The invitation to a party in 1973 should have been tossed Long ago. I am too old to renew my subscription to seventeen Magazine. Am i really going to make a Mirror out of the seashells i collected in Florida do i need 84 Margarine tubs for leftover dishes do i really believe mrs. Butterworth syrup bottles Are going to sell for $175 at an antique fair before i go Only my trash flow knows. C 1986, los Angeles times Syndicate